On Border Detention, Biden Refuses to Play by Biden’s Rules
Let alone by congressional mandates, and that's what's driving the migrant surge
By Andrew R. Arthur on May 26, 2023
Much of the most recent debate on immigration and the border has focused on the administration’s failure to fulfill its statutory obligation to detain migrants who have entered the United States illegally over the Southwest border and who have been deemed inadmissible at the ports along that border. Even putting aside Congress’ mandates, a much bigger problem is that when it comes to the detention of illegal migrants, Biden refuses to play by Biden’s own rules — and that’s driving the migrant surge.
“Biden’s Border Fiasco”. Illegal migration at the Southwest border has exploded since Joe Biden became president on January 20, 2021.
In FY 2021, Border Patrol set an all-time record for Southwest border apprehensions, nabbing nearly 1.66 million aliens who had entered illegally even while an additional 389,155 others are reported to have evaded apprehension to make their way safely into the United States (known as “got-aways”).
That “all-time record” for Southwest border apprehensions didn’t stand for long, as in FY 2022, agents caught more than 2.2 million illegal entrants. Don’t fault the agents — they were so overwhelmed with transporting, processing, caring for, and all-too-often releasing migrants that an additional 599,000 got-aways got past them that fiscal year.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Border-Detention-Biden-Refuses-Play-Bidens-Rules
